United States v. Edgar Joe Searcy

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the use of an Internet facility to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity” constitutes a crime of violence because it “presents the possibility of an encounter that could result in ‘a serious risk of physical injury to [the minor]’ ”
• holding, for the same reason, that § 2422(b) is a “crime of violence” under § 4B1.2(a)(2) of the Sentencing Guidelines
• noting that the offense “presents the possibility of an encounter that could result” in serious risk of physical injury and that “physical injury need not be [certain] for a crime to pose a serious risk of physical injury”
• “[Pjersuasion, inducement, enticement or coercion of a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity carries an inherent risk of physical injury to the minor.”
• “[P]ersuasion, inducement, enticement or coercion of a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity carries an inherent risk of physical injury to the minor.”
• “Among the amendments to Title 18 was the amendment of § 2422(b

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